Forget 'indyref', 'bae' and 'slacktivism', the word of the year is...

Gillian Fitzpatrick pictured at Lillies Bordello. The vaping industry is now an extremely lucrative one. Photo: Ronan Lang.

Rose Troup Buchanan

Vape has been chosen as the word of the year by editorial staff at Oxford Dictionaries.

Use of the word, defined as to “inhale and exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device”, has more than doubled over the course of the year to win.